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There are so many firsts for this year. This is the first year that I’ve felt really overwhelmed with the number of albums I didn’t get a chance to listen to. This is the first year with a with a toddler in the house. This is the first year I’m posting a Best Songs playlist (see the end of the post), and in some respects, I feel like I had more time for songs than for albums.

So with that introduction, the 2014 albums that went from a blossoming romance to lifelong partners are:

1. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream

2. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness

3. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams

These albums got under my skin. Ryan Adams was
the incredible soundtrack to my first trip to the US (where I also saw him live). Angel Olsen’s beautiful voice held my hand while I made some difficult decisions this year. The War On Drugs was my constant companion through my most challenging professional, and most rewarding personal year. I bought all these albums on vinyl.

All the runner-up lovers, in no particular order

Beck – Morning Phase

Hozier – Hozier

Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso

Elbow – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything

Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds In Country Music

Weezer – Everything Will Be All Right in the End

Sharon Van Etten – Are We There

The nice albums that just didn’t stick

Jenny Lewis – The Voyager

First Aid Kit – Stay Gold

Rosanne Cash – River & the Thread

Jack White – Lazaretto

Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain

Albums that went over my head

St. Vincent – St. Vincent

FKA Twigs – LP1

Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence

Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes

The Black Keys – Turn Blue

Albums I still need to listen to. Some of these may have made THE list, but…toddler

Lucinda Williams – Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Swans – To Be Kind

Sun Kil Moon – Benji

Luluc – Passerby

Rodrigo Amarante – Cavalo

The Antlers – Familiars

Tweedy – Sukierae

Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes

Flying Lotus – You’re Dead

Alvvays – Alvvays

Thurston Moore – The Best Day

Ty Segall – Manipulator

Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems

Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues

Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes

Mogwai – Rave Tapes

Eagulls – Eagulls

Robert Plant – Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar

The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers

Damien Jurado – Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son

Foxygen – …And Star Power

The Flaming Lips – With A Little Help From My Fwends

For the rest, here’s my Best Songs of 2014 playlist

I leave you with a 2-hour playlist of my Top 30 Tracks. Technically a Top 29, because GRMLN’s “Of Nothing” isn’t available on YouTube (yes, this is still happening). You can, however, listen to it on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/carparkrecords/07-of-nothing

A last final note…

The Decemberists snuck in two tracks this year from their forthcoming album (January 2015). I thought it was a little unfair to include it into the top tracks because they’ve just come along, but yeah, this is my new crush…